
Kia EV9 vs. Hyundai Ioniq 9: Same Platform, Bigger Battery, and a Price Gap That Flips
Hyundai Motor Group's three-row EV twins share a platform but not a battery. Trim for trim, the Ioniq 9 often gives you more range for little or no extra money.

Hyundai Motor Group's three-row EV twins share a platform but not a battery. Trim for trim, the Ioniq 9 often gives you more range for little or no extra money.

The roughly $450 million package also adds hybrid and EREV engine variants and tooling for a refreshed Santa Fe. Pricing and an on-sale date for the 2027 Tucson are unannounced.

Organizers have locked the dates, 24 brands, and a gasoline sponsor; the debut list has slipped to early November. Here is what is confirmed and what is a guess.

The Tucson Hybrid undercuts the CR-V Hybrid by $4,630, holds the 2026 IIHS award the Honda lacks, and is months from replacement. Here's the full math.

We scored six promised pickups on five tests: confirmation, plant, date, price, and a truck you can see. Slate passes all five. Volkswagen passes none.

Both are rated at 34 mpg and start near $47,000 with destination. We ran five years of fuel, interest, and warranty math to see which costs less to live with.

E-FOREST TECH DAY 2026 opens in Uiwang with about 200 new manufacturing technologies, including an in-house 3D inspection tunnel Hyundai says will go to overseas plants — where humanoid robots are due in 2028.

A jammed power-seat switch can run the motor until it burns, so Hyundai wants 2015–2020 Genesis and G80 sedans parked away from buildings until a fix arrives — nearly five years after the first U.S. fire was reported.

Wards judges rewarded the 329-hp turbo hybrid for keeping a mechanical all-wheel-drive system in a large SUV. Kia sells the same powertrain in the Telluride for $2,830 more.

Mark Kato, with Hyundai Motor America since 2011, now oversees dealer development for Hyundai and Genesis across North America — a network that has just posted its best third quarter and is still mid-renovation.

The European fifth-gen Tucson gets a 288-hp plug-in with up to 50 WLTP miles, and Hyundai and Waymo are eyeing robotaxi markets beyond the US. Paris also brought a new Bayon and an electric Staria Cargo.

Stellantis showed eight concepts, Hyundai named its mystery Tucson, and Lucid talked only about France. We sorted the Paris debuts by one test: can you buy it in America?

BMW, Porsche, and Ferrari are skipping Paris while 20-plus Chinese brands fill the halls. We sorted the 60-plus premieres by one test: can you buy it in America?

Hyundai's boxy off-road show car arrives in Ubisoft's open-world racer with a new winch mechanic, the first Korean-brand vehicle in the game and a preview of where XRT is headed.

At Germany's Aachen Colloquium, Manfred Harrer laid out a four-track plan spanning EVs, hybrids, range extenders, and fuel cells, months before the Santa Fe EREV arrives.

A free Exploratorium-built pop-up in Seoul will collect visitor feedback for the museum planned inside Hyundai's long-delayed GBC headquarters.

The No. 33 Elantra N TCR won the Road Atlanta finale and beat all but two GT4 cars outright, while Hyundai finished 210 points clear of Honda for the makes' crown.

Used EV prices are 8% higher than a year ago, but more than half of listings now sit under $30,000 — and a wave of three-year-old lease returns is just getting started.

Kia and Hyundai share a 329-hp hybrid, Toyota has the roomiest third row, and the Santa Fe matches the best mpg. Here's which three-row hybrid fits which family.

The 2027 Tucson gets a 17- or 12.9-inch screen, a voice assistant that answers to "Hey Hyundai," and its own app store, while wireless phone mirroring stays.